Resentment Rising
I hate when people who know nothing about my background or what has happened in my life judge me based on the surface. I really hate it.
I LOVE Bon Jovi, however. They're like the big-hair version of Bruce Springsteen, who is also from New Jersey.
Behold the jaw-dropping difficult-ness of our final essay question for Lawson:
Three countries in the contemporary Middle East--the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the State of Israel--have political systems that are firmly rooted in religion. In all three, regime legitimacy rests largely on religious principles, and religious notables play a key role in policy-making.
To what extent do opposition movements in these three countries differ from the challengers that one finds in the etatist-populist republics we have examined in this course? Can important aspects of the emergence and evolution of these movements be explained in the same (political-economic) terms that have been advanced to explain oppositions in the republics? Or must we come up with different sorts of explanatory factors and dynamics to account for religiously-based challenges in these three cases?
I love the Beach Boys, too! They harmonize like nobody's business!
I LOVE Bon Jovi, however. They're like the big-hair version of Bruce Springsteen, who is also from New Jersey.
Behold the jaw-dropping difficult-ness of our final essay question for Lawson:
Three countries in the contemporary Middle East--the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the State of Israel--have political systems that are firmly rooted in religion. In all three, regime legitimacy rests largely on religious principles, and religious notables play a key role in policy-making.
To what extent do opposition movements in these three countries differ from the challengers that one finds in the etatist-populist republics we have examined in this course? Can important aspects of the emergence and evolution of these movements be explained in the same (political-economic) terms that have been advanced to explain oppositions in the republics? Or must we come up with different sorts of explanatory factors and dynamics to account for religiously-based challenges in these three cases?
I love the Beach Boys, too! They harmonize like nobody's business!
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